"Announcing Cwtch: Privacy Preserving Infrastructure for Asynchronous, Decentralized, Multi-Party, and Metadata Resistant Applications"

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2018/06/28/announcing-cwtch/

"Worse, many tools collect information on us that can be used against us in ways that are difficult to understand or predict. Nowhere is this impact felt harder than in the marginalized communities which Open Privacy exists to serve."

https://cwtch.im/

these sound like the best premises one could ask from software development these days..

shout-out to Sarah Jamie Lewis for this project

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2018/06/28/announcing-cwtch/

@charlyblack
oh noes... more chat protocols... not a good idea... love the text, the idea is not so good, the time to develop frontend apps for all devices is way too long, and this algorithms get depecrated... why not invest time in improving something? like xmpp...? :) does most of the features...

@ajeremias I am not a cryptographer and have just started reading the paper, but the points that she makes are fairly clear tbh